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Illu the face of Dr Kells

She had been at the asylum She was there

My mind wanted to throw up, but hts came on

Dr Kells pointed at the whiteboard "Mara, can you read what’s written there?" I skimmed the words as my blood pounded in my ears The machine, the monitor, beeped faster

Double-Blind

S Benicia, in unknown) Side effects(?): anorexia, bulimia, self-harm Responsive to administered pharmaceuticals Contraindications suspected but unknown

T Burrows, non-carrier, deceased

M Cannon, non-carrier, sedated

M Dyer, inal) Side effects: co-occurring PTSD, hallucinations, self-harm, poss schizophrenia/paranoid subtype Responsive to midazolam Contraindications: suspected ness?

J Roth, inal), induced Side effects: poss borderline personality disorder, poss mood disorder Contraindications suspected but unknown

A Kendall: non-carrier, deceased

J L: artificially manifested, Lenaurd protocol, early induction Side effects: multiple personality disorder (unresponsive), antisocial personality disorder (unresponsive); ression (unresponsive) No known contraindications

C L: artificially manifested, Lenaurd protocol, early induction, deceased

P Reynard: non-carrier, deceased

N Shaw: inal carrier) Side effects(?): self-harm, poss oppositional defiant disorder (unresponsive), conduct disorder? (unresponsive); tested: class a barbiturates (unresponsive), class b (unresponsive), class c (unresponsive); unresponsive to all classes; (test mad), deceased

Generalized side effects: nausea, elevated teht terrors

"You’ve been a participant in a blind study, Mara," Dr Kells said "Thatdoctors and counselors have been unaware of your participation Your parents are unaware as well The reason you’ve been selected for this study is because you have a condition, a gene that is har you"

Carrier

"It er to yourself and others"

Side effects

"Do you understand?"

"Yes," ue responded I understood

"Soene, which has been disrupting your normal lives"

Stella Jaht by mine

And by J L Jude Lowe

I had wanted to knoe were and now I did We weren’t students We weren’t patients

We were subjects Victims, and perfect ones If we cried wolf, Dr Kells would cry crazy, and there were hundreds of pages of psychological records to back her up If any of us told the truth, the world would call it fiction

The asylum, Jude, Miami--the people I’d killed, the brother Jude had taken It all led to this moment

Because it had been calculated that way It was planned